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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1975

  Saturday 20th December 1975 

  BBC1

 
    9.00am   Bagpuss
      9.15am   Jeannie
     9.35am   Whirlybirds
   10.00am   Bewitched
    10.25am   On the Move
    10.35am   Holiday Star Trek
     11.20am   Film : Laurel and Hardy :
                      Another Fine Mess (1930)
     11.50am   Wedding Yells
     12.10pm   Weather 
     12.15pm   Grandstand
      5.05pm   Basil Brush's Christmas in Norway
      5.35pm   News, Weather 
      5.45pm   Sport/Regional News
      5.50pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
      6.45pm   Film :  Mosquito Squadron (1969)
      8.15pm   The Black and White Minstrel
                      Christmas Show
     9.00pm   Kojak
     9.50pm   News, Weather
   10.00pm   Match of the Day Special
                      
(Football & Show Jumping)
     11.20pm   Parkinson

​  Sunday 21st December 1975

  BBC1

 
   9.25am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
    9.55am   Camberwick Green
   10.10am   A Passion for Churches
   11.00am   Christmas Gift Service
   12.00        Holiday Star Trek
   12.45pm   Farming
     1.10pm   News Headlines
     1.15pm   Keystone Hotel
    1.30pm   The Sunday Adventure Film : The Alamo (19)
    4.10pm   Flying Prince of Wildlife
    5.10pm   The Legend of Robin Hood
   6.05pm   News, Weather 
    6.15pm   Songs of Praise Special
    7.25pm   Poldark
    8.15pm   Film of the Week : Anne of the Thousand Days
                    (1969)
  10.40pm   News, Weather
  10.50pm   Omnibus
   11.50pm   Weatherman


  Monday 22nd December 1975

  BBC1

    
9.00am   Banana Splits
     9.35am   Before the Ark
   10.05am   Royal Institution Lectures :
                     The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
    11.05am   Away in a Village
    11.40am   Holiday Star Trek
   12.30pm   Bugs Bunny
   12.35pm   Laurel and Hardy in Hog Wild 
   12.55pm   News, Weather 
    1.00pm   Pebble Mill Christmas
     1.45pm   Mr Benn
    2.00pm   Film : Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
    3.30pm   Animal Marvels
    3.58pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
   4.00pm   Play School
    4.25pm   Astronut
   4.30pm   Jackanory
   4.45pm   Blue Peter
    5.10pm   Inch High Private Eye
    5.35pm   Magic Roundabout
   5.40pm   National News, Weatherman
   5.50pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only) 
                   Regional News (All other English Regions)
   5.55pm   The Adventures of Robinson Hogg
   6.25pm   The Invisible Man
    7.15pm   Film : Born Free (1966)
   8.45pm   Are You Being Served?
   9.15pm   Mastermind Final
  9.50pm   News, Weather
10.05pm   The Monday Film : Women in Love (1969)
 12.05am   Weatherman/Regional News



  Tuesday 23rd December 1975

​  BBC1

     
9.05am   Banana Splits
     9.35am   Before the Ark
    10.05am  Royal Institution Lectures :
                     The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
    11.05am   Away in a Village
    11.40am   Holiday Star Trek
   12.30pm   Laurel and Hardy : Be Big 
    12.55pm   News, Weather 
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill Christmas
      1.45pm   Bod
     2.00pm   The Little House on the Prairie
      2.45pm   Bugs Bunny
     3.00pm   Alison Uttley and Little Grey Rabbit
      3.30pm   Animal Marvels: 2: Signs and Signals
      3.58pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
      4.00pm   Play School
       4.25pm   Jackanory
      4.40pm   Emu's Broadcasting Company (EBC1)
      5.05pm   The Christmas Cherries
      5.30pm   National News, Weatherman
      5.40pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only)  
                       Regional News (all other English Regions)
       5.50pm   Top of the Pops
       6.30pm   Tomorrow's World Christmas Special :
                       Now You See It.... Now You Don't!
       7.00pm   Christmas Carry On 
                       Film : Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)
​                       
Première
       8.25pm   The Liver Birds
       9.05pm   News, Weather
      9.20pm    TV Film : The Night that Panicked America
     10.55pm   The Spinners at Christmas
      11.25pm   A Ghost Story for Christmas : The Ash Tree 
     12.00         Weatherman, 
                       Christmas Weather Prospects,
                       Regional News


    Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1975

  BBC1   

   8.45am  Teddy Edward
                  told by Richard Baker (Repeat)

   8.50am  The Mister Men 
                  Mr Happy told by Arthur Lowe (Repeat)

  9.00am  Banana Splits (Repeat)

   9.35am  Before the Ark 
                  3/8 Detective Story (Repeat)

 10.05am  The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
                  Royal Institution Lectures by 
                  
Professor Eric Laithwaite
                  6 : It's My Own Invention


  11.05am  Away in a Village 
                 Three weeks in the life of a Dorset village as
                 it prepares for Christmas 

                 3 : I'll Have a Bash at Gaspar...

 11.40am  Holiday Star Trek 
                 Operation Annihilate (Repeat)

12.30pm  Foghorn Leghorn 
                 Crockett Doodle Do (cartoon)

12.35pm  Laurel and Hardy 
                 Thicker than Water (b&w)

12.55pm  News, Weather Barbara Edwards

 1.00pm   Pebble Mill Christmas Special 
                 with guests Roy Hudd, Stan Boardman,
                 The Haworth Brass Band


  2.05pm  Film : Jumbo (1962)
                  starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd

  4.05pm  Bugs Bunny 
                  Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk (cartoon)

  4.15pm  The Crackerjack Pantomime : Robinson Crusoe
                 starring Don Maclean, Peter Glaze, Jan Hunt
                 and Ed Stewart 
with special guests 
                 Windsor Davies, Don Estelle, 
John Inman,
                  John Laurie


  5.20pm  News with Peter Woods, Weatherman

  5.35pm  Tom and Jerry : (London & South East)
          
       or
                  Regional News (All other English Regions)

  5.45pm   Jim'll Fix It 
                  A Christmas Special with Jimmy Savile OBE

  6.30pm  Film : Walt Disney's
                  The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

                  starring Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter

   7.55pm  The Dick Emery Christmas Show

   8.25pm  Porridge 
                  No Way Out, starring Ronnie Barker

   9.10pm  Kojak : A Question of Answers
                  a new full-length film for Christmas Eve, 
                  starring Telly Savalas
           

 10.45pm  News with Peter Woods, Weather

 11.00pm  André Previn's Christmas Music Night
                 Janet Baker and Andre Previn in a
                 programme devised for relaxation
                 and enjoyment on this Christmas Eve


 11.50pm  Midnight Mass of the Nativity
                  from St Eugene's Cathedral Diocese of Derry

  1.15am   Closedown
 
  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1975 

  BBC1   

   9.00am  Ragtime 

                  with Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris (Repeat)

   9.15am    Hark the Herald Angels Sing
                   The Christmas Story told in carols

 10.00am   The Happy Prince 
                   cartoon

 10.24am   Weather Barbara Edwards

 10.25am   Keith Michell 
                   appeals on behalf of the NSPCC

 10.30am  Christmas Morning Service
                   from St George's Chapel, Windsor

11.45am    Rod Hull and Emu 
                  Sing a Christmas Song

12.20pm   Laurel and Hardy 
                  Pack Up the Troubles (b&w)

 1.20pm   Holiday On Ice 
                 Your annual rink-side seat at one of the
                 world's most spectacular touring ice
                 extravaganzas
                                             

  2.10pm  Top of the Pops 
                 introduced by Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmonds

 3.00pm  The Queen 
                 speaks to the Commonwealth      
                                                                   
  3.05pm  Billy Smart's Christmas Circus
                                      
  4.05pm  Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939) 
Première
                  starring Judy Garland

  5.45pm  National News 
                 with Kenneth Kendall and Weatherman
 
  5.50pm  Bruce Forsyth & the Generation Game
                 with Anthea Redfern

  6.55pm  Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

  7.40pm  The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show

                 with special guests Diana Rigg, Des O'Connor,
                 Gordon Jackson, 
Diane Solomon, Robin Day,
                 Brenda Arnaur


  8.45pm  Film : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
                 (1969)

                 starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford Première

10.30pm  The Good Old Days
                 Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall
                  from the stage of the Famous City Varieties
                 Theatre, Leeds​


11.20pm  News with Kenneth Kendall Weather

11.30pm  Parkinson meets Bob Hope

12.30am  Weather

  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1975

  BBC1

  9.05am   Chigley 
                  A Present for Lord Belborough (Repeat)

  9.20am   Boss Cat (Repeat)

  9.45am   Hong Kong Phooey 
                   a new series of comedy cartoons

 10.05am  Holiday Star Trek 
                 The Paradise Syndrome

 10.55am  Film : Let It Be (1970) 
                 with The Beatles

12.13pm   Weather Michael Fish

12.15pm   Boxing Day Grandstand
                 (12.15 Rugby League: Leeds v Keighley,
                  12.55 Football Focus,
                  1.10, 1.40, 2.10 Racing from Kempton Park,
                  1.25, 1.55 Racing from
Wincanton)   

  2.35pm   Film : tom thumb (1958) 
                  with Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young and Terry-Thomas

  4.10pm   It's a Christmas Knockout
​                  special festive competition between teams from
                  Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and Italy from the
                  Olympic Ice Rink, Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy


  5.00pm   News with Richard Whitmore
                   Weather Michael Fish

  5.10pm    Football and Sports Results 
                   with Frank Bough

  5.15pm    Disney Time
                  Bing Crosby introduces excerpts from
                  Jungle Book
                  Lady and the Tramp
                  The Apple Dumpling Gang
                  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
                  Donald's Snow Fight
                  Melody Time
                  Return of the Big Cat
                  One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing​

 
  6.05pm  Dad's Army 
                  My Brother and I

  6.45pm  Film : The Railway Children (1970)
                 starring Jenny Agutter, Dinah Sheridan
                 
and Bernard Cribbins
      
 8.30pm  Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 
                 with special guest Lulu

  9.15pm  Film : The Lion in Winter (1968)  
                 starring Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

11.25pm  News with Richard Whitmore
                
Weather Michael Fish

11.35pm  Diane Solomon Show
                with special guests Johnny Nash, George Melly
                and the Pontypridd Male Choir 


 12.15am  Weatherman

  Saturday 27th December 1975

  BBC1

    
8.55am   Bagpuss
    9.10am   Jeannie
    9.35am   Whirlybirds
  10.00am   Bewitched
   10.25am   Film ; Flipper and the Pirates
   12.00        Anything for Laughs
   12.10pm   Weather  
    12.15pm   Grandstand
    3.00pm   Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
     4.25pm   The Basil Brush Show
    4.50pm   Final Score
    5.05pm   News, Weather 
     5.15pm   It's Cliff & Friends
    5.50pm   Saturday Night at the Movies
                    Film : It's a Mad, Mad Mad, Mad World (1963)
    8.20pm   Shirley Bassey
    9.05pm   Kojak
    9.55pm   News, Weather
  10.05pm   Match of the Day
   11.05pm   Simply Simon
   11.55pm   The Fight of the Year
   12.55am   Weatherman


  Sunday 28th December 1975

​  BBC1

   
9.00am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
    9.30am   Camberwick Green
     9.45am   The Life and Death of Simone Weil
    11.00am   Seeing and Believing
    11.45am   Holiday Star Trek
   12.30pm   Farming
    12.55pm   News Headlines
     1.00pm   Winners at the Wheel
      1.45pm   The Sunday Adventure Film :
                     The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
     3.50pm   Around the World in Eighty Hours
     5.10pm   The Legend of Robin Hood
     6.05pm   News, Weather 
      6.15pm   Anno Domini
      6.55pm  Songs of Praise
      7.25pm   Poldark
      8.15pm   Film of the Week:
                      Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
    10.30pm   News, Weather
    10.45pm   Films of the Year
     11.30pm   Weatherman


  Monday 29th December 1975

​  BBC1
  
    
9.50am   Scooby Doo
  10.30am   Before the Ark
   11.00am   Laurel and Hardy : The Chimp 
    11.25am   Holiday Star Trek
    12.15pm   Password
   12.40pm   Anno Domini
     1.20pm   News, Weather 
      1.25pm   Mr Benn
     1.40pm   Film : Cinderella - Italian Style (1969)
      3.15pm   Cartoon Time
     3.30pm   Animal Marvels
     3.58pm   Regional News (excluding London)
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   Astronut
    4.30pm   Jackanory
    4.45pm   Blue Peter
     5.15pm   The King's Thief
     5.45pm   National News, Weatherman
    6.00pm   Ministerial Broadcast
     6.05pm   Nationwide
     6.40pm   Film : Kes (1969)
     8.30pm   Are You Being Served?
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
     9.20pm   When We Are Married
    11.00pm   Lord Haw Haw
    11.50pm   Weatherman/Regional News


  Tuesday 30th December 1975

​  BBC1

    
9.45am   Scooby Doo
   10.25am   Before the Ark
   10.55am   Laurel and Hardy :
                    The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case
   11.25am   HolidayStar Trek
  12.10pm   Password
  12.35pm   The Year of the Horse
    1.40pm   News, Weather 
    1.45pm   Bod
   2.00pm   Film : Road to Bali (1952)
   3.30pm   Animal Marvels
   3.58pm   Regional News (excluding London)
  4.00pm   Dastardly and Muttley
   4.10pm   Play School
   4.35pm   Hong Kong Phooey
   4.55pm   The All Star Record Breakers
   5.30pm   National News, Weatherman
   5.45pm   Nationwide
   6.45pm   The Donny and Marie Show
   7.30pm   The Inventing of America
   9.20pm   News, Weather
   9.30pm   Film : For a Few Dollars More (1965)
  11.35pm   James Last and his Orchestra
  12.20am   Weatherman, Bank Holiday Prospects,
                   Regional News


  New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1975

  BBC1

 
   9.40am   Scooby Doo
  10.20am   Before the Ark
  10.50am   Laurel and Hardy : Chickens Come Home
   11.20am   Holiday Star Trek
   12.10pm   Password
   12.35pm   The Edinburgh Military Tattoo 1975
     1.35pm   News, Weather 
     1.45pm   Teddy Edward
     1.50pm   The Mister Men
    2.00pm   Film : Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)
    3.20pm   Pluto
    3.30pm   Animal Marvels
     3.58pm   Regional News (excluding London)
    4.00pm   Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear
     4.15pm   Jackanory
    4.30pm   Screen Test
    4.50pm   Striker
     5.15pm   National News, Weatherman
     5.25pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only)
                     Regional News (All other English Regions)
    5.30pm   Film : Just My Luck (1957)
    6.50pm   The Superstars
     7.50pm   The Ken Dodd New Year's Eve Special
    8.40pm   Film : Trapeze (1956)
   10.25pm   News, Weather
  10.30pm   Max Bygraves says' I Wanna Tell you a Story'
    11.45pm   For Auld Lang Syne
   12.50am   Prologue 
    12.55am   Weather


  New Year's Day Thursday 1st January 1976

  BBC1

    
9.20am   Trumpton
     9.35am   Scooby Doo
    10.15am   Before the Ark
   10.45am   Stop, Look and Laugh
   11.00am   Star Trek
    11.45am   Password
    12.10pm   News, Weather 
    12.15pm   New Year's Day Grandstand
     2.45pm   Film : The Court Jester (1955)
     4.25pm   Deputy Dawg
     4.30pm   Jackanory
     4.45pm   Blue Peter
      5.15pm   Charlie Brown
     5.40pm   Magic Roundabout
      5.45pm   National News, Weatherman
     6.00pm   Your Region Tonight
                      Look North, South Today 
                      Look East, Midlands Today 
                      Points West, Spotlight South West  
                      Nationwide (London Only)
      6.15pm   Top of the Pops
      6.45pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
       7.45pm   Film : Chisum (1970)
      9.30pm   Supermind
     10.10pm   Main News, Weather
     10.25pm   Frankie Laine
     11.00pm   TV Film :  Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
      12.35am   Weatherman/Regional News


  Friday 2nd January 1976

  BBC1

    9.50am   Scooby Doo
   10.35am   Before the Ark
    11.05am   A Tale of Two Kittens
    11.10am   Holiday Star Trek
     12.00       Password
    12.25pm   Pobl y Cwm
    12.55pm   News, Weather
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill New Year
      1.45pm   AndyPandy
    2.00pm   Film : Abbott and Costello in On the Carpet
                     
(1946)
     3.30pm   Animal Marvels
     3.58pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   It's the Wolf
     4.35pm   Jackanory
     4.50pm   Wacky Races
    5.00pm   Crackerjack
    5.40pm   Magic Roundabout
    5.45pm   National News, Weatherman
   6.00pm   Nationwide
    7.05pm   Bugs Bunny
    7.10pm   The Wonderful World of Disney
   8.00pm   It Ain't Half Hot Mum
   8.30pm   The Good Life
   9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
    9.25pm   Gala Performance
  10.25pm   Film 76
(London) 
                    A Child in the Forest (West)
                    Report South: This Sporting Year (South)
                    Moura Lympany talks to Hugh Scully
                   
 (South West)
                    On Camera : So What Happened? (East)
                    Archie Hill Comes Home: a return to the
                    Black Country
(Midland)
                    Jimmy Savile's Yorkshire Speak - Easy (North)
                    Geordierama (North East)
                    Home Ground (North West)
   10.55pm   Weatherman/Regional News
   10.57pm   Film : Waterloo Bridge (1940)
   12.42am   Weather
  Saturday 20th December 1975 

  BBC2

 
   2.45pm   Saturday Cinema
                    Film : Arabian Nights (1942)
    4.10pm   Play Away
    4.40pm   The Year of the Bulldozer
    5.30pm   The Money Programme In America
     6.15pm   Westminster
     6.45pm   Face the Music
      7.25pm   News and Sport, Weather
      7.35pm   Rugby Special
      8.15pm   Open Door : Community Christmas
                     Party So this is Christmas 
     9.00pm   The Yeomen of the Guard
    11.00pm   Centre Play for Christmas
     11.35pm   News on 2, Weather
     11.40pm   Christmas with Bogart
                       Film : The Maltese Falcon (1941)


 




​ 

   Sunday 21st December 1975

  BBC2

   3.30pm   Marcel Marceau
    4.10pm   Film : White Christmas (1954)
   6.05pm   Dylan Thomas's A Child's
                   Christmas in Wales
   6.50pm   News Review
    7.25pm   Goodies Rule - OK?
    8.15pm   The World About Us
   9.00pm   The Punch Review
   9.30pm   News on 2, Weather
   9.35pm   Kiri Te Kanawa
 10.50pm   Christmas with Bogart
                   Film : The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
                   
(1948)
 12.50am   Closedown
                   John Gielgud reads Two in the
                   Campagna by Robert Browning





  Monday 22nd December 1975

  BBC2

​    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      6.25pm   Messiah from Scratch
       7.15pm   Collector's World.
       7.55pm   The British at Play
      8.45pm   News on 2, Weather
      8.50pm   North and South
      9.40pm   The Waltons
    10.30pm   Diversions
     11.05pm   News on 2, Weather
      11.10pm   Inside Story
      11.55am   Closedown
                       John Gielgud reads Christmas by
                       John Betjamen

















​  

  Tuesday 23rd December 1975

​  BBC2

    
11.00am  Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      7.45pm   News on 2, Weather
      7.50pm   Sounds of Christmas
      8.25pm   Deceivers Ever
      9.10pm   The Musical Time Machine
      9.55pm   At a Time Like This
    10.35pm   The Golden Harp
    10.50pm   News on 2, Weather
    10.55pm   Christmas with Bogart
                      Film : Casablanca (1942)
     12.35am   Closedown
                      John Gielgud reads A Carol for
                      the Children by Ogden Nash


 




















​ 
​  
Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1975


  BBC2
 
 10.35am  Nai Zindagi- Naya Jeevan 

                  a magazine for Asian viewers 
                  (shown last Sunday on BBC1)


 11.00am  Play School 
                  Story : The Christmas Spiders

  11.25am  Closedown

   4.05pm  Film : Oliver Twist (1948) 

                   starring Alec Guinness

   5.55pm  Carols from King's
                  a Ceremony of Nine Lessons and Carols
                  from the Chapel of King's College,
                  Cambridge 


    7.15pm  The Magic Moving Picture Show
                  films from the turn of the century
                 
introduced by John Huntley (Repeat)

  8.25pm   Amahl and the Night Visitors 
                  A Christmas opera

   9.15pm  Cartoon World 

   9.55pm  News on 2, Weather

 10.00pm  The Old Grey Whistle Test:

                  Queen's Christmas Concert live from
                  the Hammersmith Odeon


11.00pm   Christmas with Bogart Film :
                  Beat the Devil (1953)

                  starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones,
                  Gina Lollobrigida
(b&w)

12.30am    Closedown


 

 




























 
 
 






 


​   Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1975
 


  BBC2

  11.00am  Play School 

                   The Story of Christmas

   11.25am  Closedown

     1.25pm  Yes to Man 

                    by Alan Ecclestone 

     1.30pm  Christmas Day Play Away 
                    with Brian Cant

     2.05pm  Prince Charles Pilot Royal ...
                    a second chance to see a remarkable
                    film on the flying career of Prince Charles


     3.00pm  The Queen
                     speaks to the Commonwealth

      3.05pm  Swan Lake 
                      starring Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev

      4.45pm  In Deepest Britain                                                             a nostalgic look back to the heat of
                     last summer


      5.35pm  Nice One 
                     A Cockney Wedding

      5.50pm  Film : The Yearling (1946) 
                      starring Gregory Peck      

       7.55pm  Great Big Groovy Horse
                      a rock-musical romp through the
                      legend of The Wooden Horse of Troy


      8.45pm  The Evacuees 
                     by Jack Rosenthal, 
                     
International Emmy Award Winner 1975 

   10.00pm  News on 2, Weather

    10.05pm  Poems and Pints
                     spoken and sung by Max Boyce,
                     Ryan Davies. Mari Griffith, Philip Madoc


    10.30pm  Presents Past 
                      or The Art of the Tin Toy    

    11.00pm  Film : Guys and Dolls (1955) 
                     starring Marlon Brando,
                     Jean Simmons, 
Frank Sinatra,
                     Vivian Blane


  1.25am   Closedown







 
 




  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1975

  BBC2

  11.00am  Play School

   11.25am  Closedown

   3.00pm  Chronicle

                   La Trinidad Valencera (repeat)

    4.15pm  Big Top Ballet
                   Royal Ballet in Elite Syncopations

   5.00pm  Film : Ring of Bright Water (1969)
                   with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna

   6.45pm  News on 2, Weather

   6.50pm  Get Happy 
                   the music of Harold Arlen

   7.40pm   Trinity Tales 
                   Six tall stories on the Road to Wembley
                   Story 6: The Man of Law's Tale
 


  8.30pm  Mozart's The Magic Flute
                  film version directed by Ingmar Bergman

 10.50pm  News Headlines, Weather

  10.55pm  Christmas with Rutland Weekend
                   Television

                   from Britain's tiniest TV network -an
                   evening of mini-spectacular
                   programmes with Rutland's own
                   favourite stars including Eric Idle,
                   Neil Innes​


  11.25pm  Long High Summer
                  the story of the 1975 cricket season by
                  John Arlott
































  Saturday 27th December 1975

  BBC2

    1.25pm   The Grimethorpe Colliery
                   Band Play Away
   2.00pm   Saturday Cinema
                   Film : War and Peace (1956)
   5.20pm   Palio
   5.50pm   Mr Magoo
    5.55pm   A London Summer
   6.40pm   Pot Black
    7.05pm   News and Sport, Weather
    7.20pm   The Old Grey Whistle Test
   8.20pm   TV Film : Frankenstein: The True Story
                    
(1973)
    11.15pm   News on 2, Weather
   11.20pm   Christmas with Bogart
                    Film : Key Largo (1948)

 
 






   Sunday 28th December 1975

​   BBC2

    
3.00pm   Rugby Special
    4.05pm   The Unanswered Question
    5.50pm   The Royal Institution Christmas
                    Lectures : Signals from the Interior
    6.50pm   News Review
     7.25pm   The World About Us
     8.15pm   This Year, Next Year
     9.25pm   News on 2, Weather
   10.20pm   Demolition Man
    11.45pm   Closedown
                     John Gielgud reads from
                     The Flight into Egypt by W. H. Auden


 







 
​  Monday 29th December 1975

  BBC2

     
11.00am   Play School
      11.25am   Closedown
      6.30pm   The Royal Institution Christmas
                      Lectures : Signals from the Interior
       7.29pm   Weather
       7.30pm   Newsday
       7.50pm   Women -Which Way Now?
      8.30pm   How Green was My Valley
      9.20pm   The Waltons
     10.10pm   Horizon
      11.10pm   News on 2, Weather
      11.15pm   Diversions
     11.50pm   Closedown
                      John Gielgud reads
                      Gus : the Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot













   Tuesday 30th December 1975

​  BBC2

   
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     6.30pm   The Royal Institution Christmas
                     Lectures : Signals from the Interior
      7.29pm   Weather
      7.30pm   Newsday
      7.45pm   Film : The Odd Couple (1968)
     9.30pm   In Company
      9.55pm   The Gamekeeper
    10.55pm   News on 2, Weather
    11.00pm   Women -Which Way Now?
     11.45pm   Closedown
                      John Gielgud reads
                      Year's End by Richard Wilbur


​ 







 

​ 
   
New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1975

   BBC2

    
10.30am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
     11.00am   Play School
      11.25am   Closedown
      5.50pm   Golf 75
      6.50pm   The Royal Institution Christmas
                      Lectures : Signals from the Interior
       7.50pm   Three Men in a Boat
       8.55pm   News on 2, Weather
      9.00pm   The Vera Lynn Show
       9.45pm   Women - Which Way Now?
     10.25pm   Happy Birthday, Columbia
      11.30pm   Watchnight Service
     12.00          Big Ben
      12.03am   Old Grey Whistle Test


 














​  New Year's Day Thursday 1st January 1976

  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     2.45pm   The Camera and the Song
     3.35pm   Four Feet in the Snow
     4.25pm   Film : Bells Are Ringing (1960)
     6.30pm   The Royal Institution Christmas
                     Lectures : Signals from the Interior
     7.29pm   Weather
     7.30pm   Newsday
     7.45pm   New Year's Day Concert from Vienna
    9.00pm   The Two Ronnies in The Picnic
    9.30pm   Inside Story: Underneath the Archers
   10.15pm   Film Night Special
  10.50pm   Women- Which Way Now?
   11.35pm   News on 2, Weather
  11.40pm   Network
  12.10am   Closedown


 










  Friday 2nd January 1976

  BBC2

    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     6.30pm   The Royal Institution Christmas
                     Lectures : Signals from the Interior
      7.29pm   Weather
      7.30pm   Newsday
     8.00pm   Pot Black : The 1975 Final 
     8.30pm   TV Film : The Autobiography of
                     Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
    10.15pm   Women - Which Way Now?
    10.55pm   Cribbins - Livings & Co
     11.25pm   Newsnight, Weather
     11.40pm   Closedown
                      John Gielgud reads
​                      Planning Permission by James Reeves














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